Greetings and welcome to Musing Interruptus.  Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. Today, it's all about fidelity after 30. Join me.

High Fidelity is a movie I’ve watched a few times over the years. John Cusack’s character is infuriating and adorable. His top five lists are endearing and his love of music relatable. But it’s the title I want to focus on. Words and phrases change meaning, become fuller and heavier, as time goes by. Words like: love, friendship, freedom, happiness, sadness, orgasm, speed limit, breaks, life insurance, glucose, will. It seems they accumulate gravity, or the force with which they are said and fall are all the more real and heavy.

For example, believing in change or an alternate way of doing things. When I heard my favorite hippies had sold out, I was a bit devastated. I think t ...